Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1910 — Booknews and Reviews. [ARTICLE]

Booknews and Reviews.

At a recent sale Scott’s "Tales of My Landlord,” first series, first edition, a fine copy in the original boards, brought $550. An odd work was sold in London the other day. It was one of six copies of "Don Quixote” which were printed throughout on very thinly cut sheets of cork. They were brought from the Barcelona Press this year. The two small folio volumes weigh a little less than 16 ounces each. The binding is also of cork. This copy brought SSO, — King Edward of England, it is said, has expressed his desire that no record of his reign should ’published until after his death, and it is added that he has made arrangements for an authoritative memoir of him to be prepared in the future. It is said also that the King greatly disapproves of certain volumes of reminiscences lately published, and one of them he has ordered to be removed from all his residences^— ———— i

Margaret Deland Is not a woman suffragist. “We have suffered,” she said recently, '*a good deal at the hands of Patrick, and now the woman suffragists would add Bridget. They argue that if a number of men vote who are not fitted to have the ballot therefore the franchise should be at once conferred upon all women who are equally unfit. Could any logic be more utterly feminine? I believe it was Archbishop Whately who said that women couldn’t reason, anyway. The best they, could do was to evolve correct conclusions from wrong premises or to evolve the wrong conclusions from correct premises. Manhood suffrage has not yet been proved a success. • ♦ • And yet these good women want to further complicate the problem by doubling the ignorant vote. * • • I simply think it is not expedient Just now for women to have the ballot in this country/*

Few people at the present day read the works of Miss Hannah More, but in her own time they had a popularity and received a remuneration that win surprise even the writers of the modern “best sellers.” Augustine Birrell in one of his essays says he got'rid of Hannah More’s writings by burying them deep down in his garden, and he expressed the .wish that they

might never be disturbed. Yet for her novel, “Coelebs in Search of a Wife,” she received £2.000 in a single year and retained the copyright. Barley Wood she built out of her literary earnings and entertained there many distinguished visitors. Macaulay writes of her: “Her notice first called out my literary tastes. Her presents laid the foundation of my library.”

Martel Provost, the French psychologist, writing of American women in Harper’s Bazar, their "intellectual characteristic is curiosity.” "When I sit down at table beside an American woman of Paris,” he says, "she immediately asks me, ‘Have you seen such a play? Have you been to such and such an art exhibition? What do you think of this novel or of that philosophical or historical book recently published?’ And I am forced to admit that I have not seen the latest play, that for more than ten years I have not set my foot inside of the annual ‘salons,’ that I read slowly and carefully and am therefore forced to read few books. And I knew my American neighbor feels great disdain for my inculture. Still I have infinite sympathy for her charming intellectual curiosity; only long experience has taught me that man’s head cannot contain too many ideas at once.”